A Long-eared Owl was at Clareabbey Roundabout.(Chris Cullen)
Saturday 16th December 2023
One ring-tailed Hen Harrier was hunting the marshlands at Rath, Corofin.(James Organ)
There were 300 Black-tailed Godwit at Lake Atedaun.(JO)
Twenty nine Whooper Swan were at Drumcliffe.(JO)
A Manx Shearwater and two Common Scoter were at the Bridges of Ross.(Chris Cullen);
A Siberian Chiffchaff and a Chiffchaff were at Kilbaha.(CC)
Fifteen Common Scoter were at Rineville. (CC)
Wednesday 13th December 2023
Black-headed Gull Yellow TLW5 ©Tom Tarpey
This Black-headed Gull was at the Mill Road Corbally today. It was ringed as an adult in Poland in May 2019. It has wintered on the Shannon at Corbally every year since and has been seen in Holland in August 2020, in Poland in June 2023, in Holland again in September 2023, in Kilbaha in October 2023 (John N MurphY) and back in Corbally in November 2023(TT).
Saturday 9th December 2023
Two Borolo’s Shearwater flew past the Bridges of Ross at 12.25.(John N. Murphy and Geoff Pearson)
Also at the Bridges between 09.30-13.30 were one Sooty Shearwater, 21 Manx Shearwater, one Great Skua, one Blue Fulmar, one Storm Petrel, one first-winter Little Gull, two Grey Phalarope and four Common Scoter.(JNM and GP)
Seven Manx Shearwater were off Black Head.(Paul Troake)
Another Manx Shearwater, two Whimbrel and 80 Common Scoter were at Coolshiva.(PT)
Among the birds seen during the Clare Branch Outing to Ballyallia were 12 Gadwall, 90 Dunlin, 20 Whooper Swan, a Peregrine, a Jay and seven Pintail Duck.(Nuala and Tom Lynch, Sean Whelan, James Organ et al)
Two Green-winged Teal were at Lough George.(James Organ)
Eight White-fronted Geese and two Whooper Swan were at the Goose Fields in Tubber.(JO)
One juvenile White-tailed Eagle was spotted flying at Ballyboy (Tubber to Gort Road) towards Gort. (Maura Crowe)
A Barn Owl was at the Rocky Road roundabout, Ennis.(John Glynn)
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